The first few pages of Book of Thoughts, an ongoing erasure project
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another excerpt from ‘book of thoughts’
Posted by sean on December 16, 2014
https://sd-stewart.com/2014/12/16/another-excerpt-from-book-of-thoughts/
draining
Source: Waring, George E. Draining for Profit, and Draining for Health. New York, NY, 1867.
draining
a condition, more or less clear,
always unmistakable
sometimes standing
dark wet streaks
when dry sometimes
a fluttering distress
curling, cracking, feeble
spindling, shivering
winter stretched its crown
the quarantine—rank growth
dank miasmatic fogs
recognize these indications
of the drainer
remove the causes
Posted by sean on January 27, 2014
https://sd-stewart.com/2014/01/27/draining/
excerpt from ‘book of thoughts’
Excerpt from Book of Thoughts, an erasure text.
Read another excerpt from Book of Thoughts at Ink Sweat & Tears.
Posted by sean on September 7, 2013
https://sd-stewart.com/2013/09/07/excerpt-from-book-of-thoughts/
erasure published
Hi.
My erasure text, part of a larger work-in-progress called Book of Thoughts, was published the other day at Ink Sweat & Tears, a U.K.-based poetry and prose webzine, whose “tastes are eclectic and magpie-like.” I like that.
Goodbye!
Posted by sean on February 21, 2013
https://sd-stewart.com/2013/02/21/erasure-published/
every morning
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Erased from Chapter XIII of Nerves and Common Sense (1925) by Annie Payson Call
Posted by sean on November 27, 2012
https://sd-stewart.com/2012/11/27/every-morning/
wonderland
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Who will remember
life beyond old age
We saw darkly— being
opposite reflections of ourselves
We knew an unnatural world
negative – passive – useless
Yet consider the possibility
of unreal life
Let us happen
in our own isolated
captivity
Some of us passed
into this fantastic
wonderland
Posted by sean on November 8, 2012
https://sd-stewart.com/2012/11/08/wonderland/
human dust
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Erased from Ch. XXVIII of Nerves and Common Sense (1925) by Annie Payson Call
Audio of reading:
Posted by sean on November 5, 2012
https://sd-stewart.com/2012/11/05/human-dust/
the quiet, the quiet
Erased from Ch. VII of Nerves and Common Sense (1925) by Annie Payson Call
Some live in chronic time.
They do not find it,
they do not find it and they get ill.
It is really much the same,
keep a little stimulant
keep a bad habit.
We feel unnatural if we feel natural.
We are in it—but it is poison.
If a habit of
rocking or chattering
may feel unnatural and weird,
we wrench out these things
and yet the poisoning goes on.
When we are in a pretty bad way,
the worst know it.
I once lived in excitement,
dressed in excitement,
went to breakfast in excitement,
went about everyday excited.
Every event—little or big—was excitement.
Excitement over nothing.
We went deep in the woods and the mountains,
full of great powerful quiet.
When first there, excited about arrival,
excited about it,
but the night jumped in with torture.
I suddenly started up the trouble.
‘Oh, oh, the quiet! It is so quiet!’
Brain in whirl of excitement
felt pain when excitement touched it.
Posted by sean on October 30, 2012
https://sd-stewart.com/2012/10/30/the-quiet-the-quiet/
r___ed f__ling
Erased from Ch. III of Nerves and Common Sense (1925) by Annie Payson Call
Posted by sean on October 30, 2012
https://sd-stewart.com/2012/10/30/r___ed-f__ling/
measure for a loner, erased
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Erased from the 1959 science fiction story by Jim Harmon, aka Mr. Nostalgia
Posted by sean on October 22, 2012
https://sd-stewart.com/2012/10/22/measure-for-a-loner-erased/
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